All this nonsense over whether we should say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays is pure stupidity, and it prompted this blog entry. This is what people debate? This is the foolishness they worry about, when minds could be put to use figuring out a cure for Cancer, or how to solve world hungry? I think that people are free to believe, or not believe, whatever they want to believe. Why not show respect to others by allowing them the freedom to do just that?
Someone once held a belief that one must know all to know the all-knowing. The belief that one must be all-knowing to know the all-knowing is a fallacy. It is a contradiction. Human faith in a higher being that is all-knowing and all-powerful is based largely on absent proofs and the unknown. If you believe in a God the way Christians do, you also concede to the fact that humans are merely humans and cannot know all that God comprehends; but you also must understand that the very same individuals acknowledging this also believe indisputably in the existence of God. They do not possess God’s knowledge, but they know him. He is real to them. The believers’ belief in the existence of a God is proof in itself of His existence; it is unquestioned; it is unquestionably a very real entity. Faith can be construed as a matter of the mind—a difference of perception, which varies among individuals in both potency and process. The fact is, those with faith usually have little evidence of that which they believe in. They have personal evidences, but these are things others just do not share. I want to illustrate my point in a much clearer example that almost everyone can understand. This brings us to the scientist and the carpenter. The scientist grasps at knowledge of the world that the carpenter does not understand, but the carpenter may know the scientist, may befriend the scientist, and may love the scientist, without having an intimate understanding of thermodynamics. One may know another without knowing all that another knows. The opposite would imply that one could not know God, making that existence of God impossible to perceive.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone. May you take care and be safe in this most perplexing world of ours.
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